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Conference Schedule
22 April 2026 (Wednesday)
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM – 12:15 AM
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Registration and Open Coffee Bar
Opening Ceremonies
National Anthem & Invocation
Welcome Remarks
Introduction
Opening Keynote Lecture
Anatomy of Neglect: When Medical Education Forgets the People it Serves
Coffee Break
Plenary Session 1: Decolonizing the Research Pipeline: Positionality, Power Dynamics, and Promoting Equity in Knowledge Production
Lunch Break
[Parallel Session] Panel 1: Engaged Anthropology and the Future of Inquiry: Democracy and Conflict Resolution in the Philippines
Institute of Philippine Culture
[Parallel Session] Thematic Session 1: Data Justice and Digital Ethics: Navigating Privacy, Consent, and Surveillance in Research
Coffee Break
[Parallel Session] Panel 2: Thinking Differently about Being and Healing: Contributions of affective, rhizomatic, and embodied lenses to research in Psychology
Department of Psychology
[Parallel Session] Thematic Session 2. The Algorithmic Turn: Social Science in the Age of AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data
Czarina A. Saloma-Akpedonu, Dr.rer.soc.
Dean, Rosita G. Leong School of Social Sciences
Ateneo de Manila University
Dr. Alfred Pawlik
RGLSOSS Coordinator for Research
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Weaving Women’s Words on the Wounds of War: Women’s Agentic Performativity, Truth-Listening, and Memorialization
Dr. Ma. Lourdes Veneracion
Examining American exceptionalism and Philippine economic underdevelopment in colonial Southeast Asia from the lens of the 1931 Goodwill Tour
Dr. Patricia Irene N. Dacudao
Teaching Documentary Filmmaking as Social Advocacy: The Yangon Film School
Dr. Violet Valdez
From Diskarte to Dignity: Fostering Conscientization and Collective Agency Among Street Dwellers in Metro Manila
Dr. Melissa Quetulio-Navarra
What Gets Lost in Translation? Decolonizing Inclusive Leadership Through Filipino Middle Managers' Lived Experience, A Grounded Theory Study
Marvlitz Eugene T. Echipare and Dr. Ma. Regina Hechanova
Co-Knowledge Generation with Communities: Restructuring the Research Process
Mary Racelis and Jehu Laniog
Relational Repair: Philippine Values and the Everyday Work of Conflict Resolution in Communities
Jessica Sandra R. Claudio, MA & Enrique Niño P. Leviste, PhD
Ang “Kuliglig” ay Demokrasya? Towards A More Grounded Understanding of Democracy in the PhilippinesBeatriz C. Beato, MA & Gino Antonio P. Trinidad, MA
Traditional Justice Systems: Conflict Mediation in Mt. Province and Zamboanga
Patria Luwalhati D. Garcia, MS & Haraya Marikit C. Mendoza
Dr. Maria Inez Angela Z. Ponce de Leon
Associate Chair
Department of Communication
Dr Cenon R. Alfonso
Dean and Professor
Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health
Technological Use — Including AI — Under Moral Authority
Reynand Dumala-on
Experiencing Objectification in Platform Work: Food Delivery Riders’ Accounts of Organizational Absence and Self-Valuation
Dr. Emerald Jay D. Ilac, Dr. Ma Tonirose Mactal, & Clarisse Aeaea M. Kilboy
Regulating Patient Data in Philippine Health Research: Bridging Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Data
Dr. Severo C. Madrona, Jr.
Family, Peer, and Teacher Relationships of Students with and without Bullying Experiences: A Qualitative Study
Katrina Santos
An Affective Lens to Embodying Transgender Identity
Mibo Borres & Gilana Roxas
Exploring Narratives through a Rhizomatic Lens: Rhizomatic Stories as a Way of Seeing Life After Sexual Violence
Dr. Angelique Pearl Virtue P. Villasanta
Towards an Embodied Feminist Research Ethics in Psychology
Girl Research Group
(Anne Therese Marie B. Martin, Juleini Vivien I. Nicdao, Gilana Kim T. Roxas, & Angelique Pearl Virtue P. Villasanta)
Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources: Perceptions and Experiences of Practitioners in the Philippines
Dr. Jaimee Felice Caringal-Go, Dr. Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Mark Vincent Gutib, Jhio Jan Navarro, & Alexander Dereck Cabangon
Cultural Analytics as Foundation in Developing Anti-Discrimination Policies
Maria Margarita R. Lavides, PhD, Vladimer B. Kobayashi, PhD, Cristabel F. Tiangco, Purisima P. Panlilio, PhD, Remi E. De Leon, & Angela D. Carreon
Social Representations of Suicide in Filipino Facebook Discourse
Gutsdozer E. Tancio & Dr. Arsenio Sze Alianan
Inflation Dynamics in the Philippines: Evidence from Oil Prices and Text-Based Sentiment Analysis
Dino Carlo A. Saplala, Gerald Gracius Y. Pascua, & Jon Ethan Lancelot M. Batara
23 April 2026 (Thursday)
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM -5:00 PM
Registration and Open Coffee Bar
Plenary Lecture
[Parallel Session] Panel 3: Emerging Interdisciplinary Frontiers in
Philippine-Portuguese Research
Department of History
[Parallel Session]Panel 4: Methodological Frontiers in the Political Psychology of Democratization
Political Psychology of Democratization Laboratory
[Parallel Session] Thematic Session 3: Qualitative & Mixed-Methods Futures: Innovations in Design, Data Collection, and Visual Analysis
[Parallel Session] Panel 5: Beyond Survival: Negotiating Agency, Reciprocity, and Narrative Repair in the Contemporary Philippines
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Lunch Break
Plenary Session 2: Bridging the Divide: Interdisciplinary Research at the Intersection of Social Sciences and Other Fields
RGLSOSS Outstanding Graduate Research Awards Reception
RGLSOSS Outstanding Graduate Research Awards and Awarding Ceremonies
The 1931 Goodwill Trip: Comparing Philippine agriculture with its neighbors in Southeast Asia
Dr. Patricia Irene Dacudao
Untangling the Puzzle of Anemic Inter Country Trade, Investment, and Labour Migration between the Philippines and Portugal
Dr. Geoffrey M. Ducanes
Bridging the Pacific: Colonial Education in the Spanish Philippines and Portuguese Goa (16th-19th Centuries)
Dr. Olivia Anne M. Habana
European Contributions to Democratization Processes in the Philippines
Dr. Cristina J. Montiel
Mapping Rhetorical Variations in the Languages of Pandemic Leaderships
Dr. Cristina Jayme Montiel and Dr. Joshua Uyheng
Critical Foundations for Computational Methods in Political Psychology
Dr. Joshua Uyheng and Dr. Cristina Jayme Montiel
Positioning in Online Disinformation Communities during the 2022 Philippine Elections
Nmanuel de Leon, Jr. and Dr. Joshua Uyheng
Denaturalizing Disaster: Tracing Discursive Shifts in Twenty-Five Years of Flooding Coverage in the Philippines
Ariana Jewel P. Enriquez & Dr. Joshua Uyheng
Dr. Jose Jowel Canuday
Tagpuan Center for Dialogue, Research and Collaboration
Dr. Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr.
Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation,
Czarina A. Saloma-Akpedonu, Dr.rer.soc.
Dean, Rosita G. Leong School of Social Sciences
Ateneo de Manila University
Using Narrative Analysis to Understand Community Transformation
Dr. Mendiola T. Calleja, Marshaley J. Baquiano, Jaimee Felice Caringal-Go, Raymond Edmidio Victor Ramos, Jason O. Manaois, Josef Nikolai T. Calleja, & Josephine P. Perez
Weberian approach for a mixed-methods research design: The roles of Verstehen, empirical regularity, multicausal explanation, and typological level of analysis in analyzing the economic miracle in the Republic of Korea
Marjorie S. Muyrong, PhD & Ma. Regina Hechanova, PhD
From Geneva and Washington, DC, to Pasay City: The Evolution of Research from Deficit-Based to Strength-Based Models
Dr. Leonardo A. Lanzona, Jr
Navigating the Ethical Gaze: Visualizing Sociological Research into Photo-Essays on New Consumer Cultures in Metro Manila
Aaron R. Vicencio
Nature as a Moral Educator
Reynand Dumala-on
Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Consumption of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine among Filipinos Post Covid-19 Pandemic
Dr. Jane Yugioksing
Violence Against Nature, Cascading Disasters and Ethics: Bridging Science-Policy-Practice Nexus in the Philippines
Dr. Emma Porio
Preparing for an Ageing Population
Dr. Fernando T. Aldaba & Charlon B. Mayo
Buhay-Sangkalusugan: Triaging Social Structuration of Post-Pandemic Lived-Experiences of Healthcare Workers in a State-Run Sub-Metropolis Hospital
Arthur Tangara, Jr.
Hanapbuhay (Livelihood): Life-Seeking and the Politics of Survival in Freelance Work
Theresa Anne Nadine L. Rellamas
Sustaining Livelihoods through Microfinance and Careful Navigation of Social Ties in a Community-Led Cooperative in Southville 7
Miguel Galvez
Narrating After Rupture: Embodied Violence and Narrative Repair among Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Schools
Karen Garcia